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I’m referring specifically to the character of Chel. Her character design is unnecessarily voluptuous and fetishized. She’s the ONLY female character in the film who’s dressed scantily clad, while all of the other women are in full, traditional dress attire. Every other woman in this movie is literally just a background character too, which really goes to show that the makers of this movie only wanted the hypersexualized, “eye-candy” female character to be the only real female character who gets any screentime. In addition, her character’s only purpose is to just be a femme fatale and an object of the two main white, European male characters’ affections.
Throughout the film, she depends on sex appeal and seduction to get what she wants, and it just really feels wrong and backwards in so many ways. To top it all off, she casually lies to and sells out her own people for her own personal gain, knowingly going along with the Spanish con artists’ lies about them being gods.

Looking back in hindsight and as a person of indigenous Mexican ancestry myself, this was honestly an extremely offensive and disgusting depiction of indigenous women, and it contributes to stereotyping and fetishization, especially since indigenous women in Latin America were subject to sexual violence and slavery from Spain and Portugal around the time period that this film takes place in.

There’s plenty of old movies and shows like Pocahontas and others that give heinous, historically inaccurate depictions of native people, but this is one that really stood out to me.

Am I wrong to be upset by this, even if it is just a purely fictional movie? How do you personally feel about this film and it’s depictions of indigenous people in Mesoamerica?

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